Ezra, Pound : (1885-1972), American poet, critic, editor, & translator, considered one of the foremost American literary figures of the 20th century. Pound was a chief architect of English & American literary modernism, a movement characterized by experimentation in literary form & content, exploration of the literary traditions of non-Western & ancient cultures, & rejection of the traditions of the immediate past.
... whom Sri Aurobindo obviously admired, though with the necessary qualifications, he was doubtless also influenced as a practitioner of verse by the work of contemporaries like Yeats, Eliot and Ezra Pound. While the extent of the influence might not have been very appreciable, there can be no question about the reality of Sri Aurobindo's intelligent interest in contemporary English poetry. Passages... as examples of the new 'ametric poetry', and once, in 1946, in defence of his use of the French word 'flasque' in Savitri, he said that he had done it "somewhat after the manner of Eliot and Ezra Pound".' 3 Whether Sri Aurobindo had any close acquaintance with the Cantos it is difficult to say; but he certainly knew about this unique 'work in progress' in a general way, and any major poetic... psychiatrists (he was ultimately released in 1958). Starting from opposite directions, as it were, these two great poets wrote some of their best work in isolation and seclusion. Ezra Pound the pro-fascist and the anti-Semitist belongs to contemporary political history, but the creator of the Cantos can be Page 390 considered as a figure apart. The Cantos ...
... 11. From Virgil to Milton, p. 15. 12. Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance, p. 127. 13. Dante's Other World, p. 73. 14. Possibility, p. 27. 15. The Figure of Beatrice, p. 195. 16. The Lusiads (The Penguin Translation), pp. 40-1. 17. ibid., Introduction, p. 26. Ezra Pound, however, savs that the real weakness of the poem is that... that Mr.W.B. Stanford should make no reference whatsoever to the Cantos in his otherwise exhaustive study, The Ulysses Theme (1954). 45. The Poetry of Ezra Pound,p.317. 46. G. S. Fraser, in his Ezra Pound (I960), compares the pattern of the Cantos with that of The Divine Comedy, The Pisan Cantos being "a kind of Purgatorio" (p. 70). 47. Canto LXXXVII. ... World, pp. 62-3. 27. Bernard Blackstone, The Consecrated Urn, p. 134; see also Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice, p. 56, Wellek & Warren, Theory of Literature, p.196, and Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance, p. 127. 28. On the Veda, pp. 8-9. 29. ibid, pp. 277-8 30. ibid., p. 11 31. Savitri p. 275-6, See also A.B. Purani , Savitri: ...
... disregard of words characterises Sri Aurobindo's use of the English language, and seems to be a blind-spot in your reading of him. Perhaps the best advice I ever received as a young poet was from Ezra Pound, on my one meeting with him - in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital, outside Washington DC while he was still confined there - as I went up to him, he started on poetry straight away, saying he'd been... the chastely lucid which the economy of Crashaw presented we are offered the passionately complex by a verbal lavishness which makes imaginative poetry of the highest order. I don't know what Ezra Pound would have done with Hopkins's language. What he taught you was certainly worth learning. His pruning hand became rightly famous by the catching shape of novelty it gave to Eliot's Waste Land. ...
... Thompson asked me to read the poems of Eliot. He was in ecstasy over them. I read them. I couldn't find anything there. Neither in Ezra Pound. I asked Amal's opinion. SRI AUROBINDO: What did he say? PURANI: He is of the same view. He cut a fine joke on Ezra Pound: "His name is Pound but he is not worth a penny." (laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: Eliot is the pioneer of modem poetry. I have not read ...
... epic which has lately appeared, twenty-one years after its first publication in Greek, in an English translation by Kimon Friar. It is a natural, even a logical, transition from the Cantos of Ezra Pound to the modern Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis. Page 395 ...
... the tragic and the comic, the serious and the flippant, the climax and the bathos are blended together, chemically fused, as part and parcel of a single whole. Take, for example, the lines from Ezra Pound quoted above, the obvious pun (Greek tin' or tina, meaning "some one" and English "tin"), the cheap claptrap, it may be explained, is intentional: the trick is meant to bring out a sense ...
... more central to the scheme of Savitri than that of the others. Or we may approach Savitri by yet another road, passing on the way the two formidable milestones, the Cantos of Ezra Pound and Kazantzakis' 'modern sequel' to the Odyssey. The modern American- Page 457 European, the modern Cretan-Greek, the modern Hindu with an English education: all three ...
... phanopoeic in order to ensure its purity? The Symbolists would return an emphatic Yes. So would the school known as the Imagists. One of the founders of Imagism was the American-English poet Ezra Pound. Imagism is a revolt against the development of Romanticism into the vaguely and vastly emotional, the sense of at once the crepuscular and the cosmic, the mind twilight-blurry and tending to float ...
... critics, Sethna would like to respond to many poems in a refreshingly Indian manner. But wherever there is a need, he does not fight shy of using alien tools. Of these, the one advocated by Ezra Pound seems to have captured his heart. Pound's classification of melopoeia, phanopoeia and logopoeia, by which he means "song-making", "image-making", and "word-making", enables Sethna to discuss ...
... l states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a cold ...
... there is sight's sound, there is also sound's sight. And when "Le Musicien de Silence" becomes one with "Le Musicien de Page 144 Son" we have an unsurpassable marvel. Listen to Ezra Pound: "When we know more of overtones we shall see that the tempo of every masterpiece is absolute, and is exactly set by some further law of rhythmic accord. Whence it should be possible to show that ...
... also sound and silence; if there is sight's sound, there is also sound's sight. And when le Musicien de Silence becomes one with le Musicien de Son we have an unsurpassable marvel. Listen to Ezra Pound: "When we know more of overtones we shall see that the tempo of every masterpiece is absolute, and is exactly set by some further law of rhythmic accord. Whence it should be possible to show that ...
... at the same time apt figures in a poetry dealing with little known spiritual and mystic topics. And here lies also the difference between that group of modem English poets headed by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and others on one side and Sri Aurobindo on the other. Those English poets as well as Sri Aurobindo use 74 p. 37. 75 p. 259. 76 p. 242. 77 p. 204. Page 371 ...
... required. PURANI: Perhaps they will swim across with swimming belts and allow themselves to be arrested. SRI AUROBINDO: Swimming parties can't be arrested. This man Leavis is less partial to Ezra Pound than to Eliot. He says Pound's earlier poems are a preparation for later ones which have rhythm, form, etc., but have no substance. Have you found. wonderful rhythm? PURANI: None. Isn't that poem ...
... Dante, the symphonic blank verse of Milton, the crystalline iambic pentameter of Savitri, all play no mean part in charging these great epics with life and movement and a rounded significance. Ezra Pound makes an important point when he writes: When we know more of overtones we shall see that the tempo of every masterpiece is absolute, and is exactly set by some further law of ...
... "done a Dante" and made of his Savitri another Commedia ? Before attempting to answer this very, very difficult question, let me preface my remarks with the following obiter dicta by Ezra Pound: Any sincere criticism of the highest poetry must resolve itself into a sort of profession of faith. The critic must begin with a 'credo', and his opinion will be received in ...
... though written in prose, make a total impact that is not unlike the impact of epics on us. And what is one to say about a phenomenon like Goethe's Faust or Hardy's The Dynasts} The Cantos of Ezra Pound sets a similar problem: is it an epic, too, an epic still in progress? And we have, above all, Nikos Kazantzakis' colossal epic The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel 8 and Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. ...
... felicitous, the magnificent. Now we may make another kind of division—three classes, each of which can hold all the three Patmorean types. I shall borrow it from the Anglo-American modernist poet Ezra Pound. I believe Pound is at present in a mental home—but not because he is a poet. Poets are already mad in a special way—they cannot go mad in the ordinary manner: it must be the non-poetic avatar of ...
... the magnificent. Now I shall make another kind of division — three classes, each of which can hold all the three types of poetic phrase. I shall borrow it from the Anglo-American modernist poet Ezra Pound. I believe Pound was in a mental home — but not because he was a poet. Poets are already mad in a special way — they cannot go mad in the ordinary manner: it must be the non-poetic avatar of Pound ...
... the poets of the past, comes closest to Sri Aurobindo, and I found the essays on Dante by T.S. Eliot and Allen Tate the most illuminating, though Charles Williams is very good too. Of the moderns, Ezra Pound and Nikos Kazantzakis challenge comparison with Sri Aurobindo as epic poets. I have therefore made an attempt to see both the Cantos and The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, in relation to Savitri ...
... from Madhusudan, and from Rabindranath as well. Bengali verse has enlarged its scope to a surprising degree; in variety as in scope it has grown almost immeasurably. But that is another story. Ezra Pound has made an astonishing remark on this question of poetic rhythm. He says that the rhythm or music of poetry is beyond the realm of words and their meaning; it has an existence quite apart and almost ...
... Synopsis and Notes by Kimon Friar (Seeker & Warburg, London, 1958). Kellett, E.E. Reconsiderations (Cambridge University Press, London, 1928). Kenner, Hugh. The Poetry of Ezra Pound (New Directions, New York, 1951). Ker, W.P. (ed.) Essays and Studies, Vol. III (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1912). Knight, G. Wilson. The Crown of Life : Essays in Inte ...
... states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the. very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a ...
... at once, and one is often burdened by preconceived notions of what is proper. If when facing a swan we start looking for a duck we shall only pronounce it an ugly duckling! Poetic appreciation, as Ezra Pound has reminded us, is a sort of profession of faith; but, of course, the 'profession' itself is preceded by a genuine first response to the poem, and should be followed by a patient examination of ...
... word meaning 'slack', 'loose', 'flaccid', etc. I have more than once tried to thrust in a French word like this, for instance,'A harlot empress in a bouge'—somewhat after the manner of Eliot and Ezra Pound. Now that Savitri has been mentioned we may dip into it with the very passage to which Sri Aurobindo here refers. It is about an occult dimension explored by Savitri's father Aswanathv: ...
... unexpected double entendre and at least mutilate the noble theme even if in spite of his modern predilections he is still a true poet. I can more Page 56 or less conceive what some Ezra Pound gifted with no negligible force and subtlety would do. Most probably he would resort to a pyrotechnic display of cross-light imagery in treating the fast-fading sacred atmosphere of Wordsworth's ...
... word meaning "slack", "loose", "flaccid" etc. I have more than once tried to thrust in a French word like this, for instance, "A harlot empress in a bouge"—somewhat after the manner of Eliot and Ezra Pound. 1946 Page 305 To unify their task, excluding life Which cannot bear the nakedness of the Vast, [ p. 273 ] I suppose the intransitive use of "unify" is not illegitimate, ...
... effeminate, Virgil never lacked — yet his spell of music was so creative that hardly any great poet since but has fallen under it. We moderns, even when free from the paroxysmal influence of our Ezra Pounds and keeping our senses sweet with the old sober ecstasies, may imagine ourselves independent of it since we do not require to worship him, having Shelley and Keats as our first guiding stars; but ...
... 201, 234 Planck, Max, 356 Plato, 1l7, 150, 211, 219, 326 Plotinus, 150, 361 Poland, 72, 127 Pole, the, 304 Polonius, 187 Pope, 212 Pound, Ezra, 192 Pragmatism, 326 Prithwiraj, 90 Prometheus, 234 Proteus, 274 Prussia, 88 Puranas, the, 71 Pythagoras, 150,211,219 QUANTUM MECHANICS ...
... Piper, Ravmond Frank 373 Plato 33,271 Plotinus33,326 Page 495 Pope, Alexander 33, 78,315,341,346,355, 410 Pound, Ezra 377, 384, 389, 392-394, 398, 402,414,447,460,461 Prince of Edur 47,51,52 Prothero, G.M. 7 Purani, A.B. 20,27,316,370, 371 Quiller-couch, Sir Arthur 377 ...
... -"Winter Night", 189n Pax Britannica, 250 Persia, 284 Philolaus, 131 Pilate, 4 Plato, 247-8, 275n., 279 Poetry, 196n., 207n Pondicherry, 228 Pope, 85 Pound, Ezra, 88 Pravahan, 22 Pythagoras, 30 RAKsHASAS, 159 Rama, 187 Ramayana, the, 235 Ramprasad, 218 Reformation, the, 273 Renaissance, the, 71, 239 Renard, Jean-Claude, 209 ...
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